M Puzzle: Making a List, Checking It Twice

by Francis Heaney

The clues can be paired up such that the answer to one, when the first phoneme is deleted, gives the answer to the other (like "affair" and "fare" or "cod" and "odd" in the puzzle introduction).

Kind of gastropod

ABALONE

BOLOGNA

Lunch meat option

Part of a sundial

GNOMON

OMEN

Real-life foreshadowing

Buttercup's counterpart

TRIGGER

RIGOR

Thoroughness

Look

APPEAR

PEER

Baron

Camera brand

NIKON

ICON

Symbol

It's made out of blocks

IGLOO

GLUE

What you may be labeled after insulting a child

Brazen girl

MINX

INKS

Emulates Karl Story

Oppenheimer's field

ATOMICS

TOM MIX

Actor in old Westerns: 2 wds.

Engine noise

VROOM

RHEUM

Cold symptom

Watergate figure: 2 wds.

JOHN DEAN

ONDINE

Giraudoux play

Tension

UNEASE

KNEES

They're required for genuflection

Type of metamorphic rock

GNEISS

ICE

Granita ingredient

A "Colgate Comedy Hour" host: 2 wds.

EDDIE CANTOR

DECANTER

Wine vessel

Mystery author: 2 wds.

REX STOUT

X'D OUT

Like some words meant to be deleted: 2 wds.

Publish

ISSUE

SHOE

Comic strip bird

Fictional planet

KRYPTON

RIPPED ON

Made fun of, slangily: 2 wds

If you then read the phonemes in the order of the clue answers from which the phonemes have been deleted, you get the clue "Antonym of generic". The antonym of "generic" is "specific"; deleting the first sound from that gives you the final answer, PACIFIC.

Training:

[Insert details of training clueing here.] In the 2002 Mystery Hunt, the property PACIFIC corresponded to the puzzle answer HAWAIIAN (see the hacking runaround answer). The trained answer is HAWAIIAN.